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- Touring the Sixth
Tribunal –
- “Barbed Netting and
Locust/Leeches Small Prison”
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- JiGong:
Sheng Xian Tang has been extensively renovated and
repainted and looks very pleasant and stately. Deities
like clean and quiet places of worship. If human beings
want to see or commune with Deities, the most important
requisite is their hearts must be pure otherwise, even
if they have clear-sighted eyes, such eyes will be
clouded by dust and so will not be able to see or feel
the aura of the Deities. Yang Sheng, prepare to get up
on the lotus flower platform, to tour Hades today.
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- Yang Sheng:
Yes, Sir. Dear Master, why is it that you appear very
happy today?
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- JiGong: It
is because I am very happy to see Sheng Xian Tang so
very nice and tidy today and any worry or sorrow that I
might have has totally disappeared.
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- Yang Sheng:
Human beings say, “out of sight, anything is clean”. Do
you think this is true?
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- JiGong:
Deities and Buddhas can say this is true but human
beings cannot say so. Here is an example: In present day
world, many crimes and actions lacking morality are
being committed in the dark; how then can human beings
say that if they do not see these “dark places” then
they must be clean?
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- Yang Sheng:
What you have just said is very true. I’m now safely
seated on the lotus flower platform so we can start….
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- JiGong: We
have arrived; get down.
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- Yang Sheng:
Today, we see the soldiers of Hades herding souls in an
orderly manner and there are no crying and wailing.
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- JiGong: This
is the “Barbed Netting and Locust/Leeches Small Prison.”
Because these sinful souls have not yet got the
immediate effect of this Prison, that is why you cannot
hear any loud crying or wailing. These souls just moan
quietly at the beginning – just wait and see the after
effects. We are now near the gate of the Prison. Look,
the Officer and Generals are waiting to receive us.
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- Yang Sheng:
My respects to you, Officer and Generals. My Master and
I have come to seek your assistance; so please help us
in our mission.
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- Officer: No
need to stand on ceremony. This Small Prison is under
the control of the Sixth Tribunal. Bian Cheng Wang is in
charge. The many books written by Sheng Xian Tang
through planchette writing; have been the means of
reforming many human beings and thus earning much
meritorious merits. By touring our Sixth Tribunal and
seeing what goes on in the various Small Prisons here
and using the information gained to write your Book
“Diyu Youji” for human beings to read and benefit
thereby, makes us have glorious and splendid feeling.
Please follow me inside.
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- Yang Sheng:
Thank you very much Officer.
- Wow! This Prison has barbed netting spread on the
ground and above ground. This barbed netting is like
what the Police on Earth erect when they want to prevent
mobs rushing. The first spread of barbed netting rests
on the water-bogged ground. Just high enough for a
person to crawl on the ground is another spread of
barbed netting. No one can stand up and walk between
these two spreads of barbed netting – he has to crawl.
If a sinful soul tries to stand up, his head and back
will be pricked by the barbed netting and clothing will
be torn. Sticking to the bodies of the souls are several
movable objects, not seen clearly from our present
position. Please, Officer, tell us what those movable
objects are.
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- Officer:
There are two types – one, locust and the other,
leeches; they suck the blood of the body and brain of
these souls. If we take a couple of steps nearer, we
should be able to see more clearly.
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- Yang Sheng:
Very good….ah! so many leeches are sticking to the
uncovered parts of the body – so frightful! At the head
are so many locusts, don’t know what they are after.
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- JiGong:
Leeches can mostly be found in drains. When a leech
sticks to a body, it sucks the blood and refuses to drop
off; human beings are very afraid of them. Locusts suck
the sap of rice paddy; they can destroy a paddy field in
a short time. The locusts here suck the brain of the
sinful soul.
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- Officer:
When locusts suck the sap of the rice paddy, the color
of the sap is white and when they suck the brain of the
souls, the color is also white.
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- Yang Sheng:
Truly it is very frightful to witness this scene which
makes me feel tired at the heart and my feet tend to
become soft.
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- JiGong: Do
not be afraid. Because we have to write this Book, we
are forced to tour this Prison. When I accompany you
what is there to fear?
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- Officer:
Please wait a while. I will bring out a few sinful souls
for them to tell their stories.
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- Yang Sheng:
Thank you, Officer, but please be quick about it and
remove the leeches first from the bodies because I’m
afraid of leeches!
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- Officer:
Yes, yes, just wait…. The two types of insects have been
removed from the bodies of the souls so that they can
come out and tell their stories. Look here, sinful
souls, these two are JiGong Huofo and Sheng Xian Tang’s
Yang Sheng who have been entrusted with the job of
writing the Book, “Diyu Youji” describing the suffering
of sinful souls in Hades, for human beings to read and
thereby reform. You have to co-operate and tell your
stories why you are here.
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- 1st Soul:
when I was alive, I was a judge. I was corrupt and
always passed judgement in favor of those who bribed me
with money – thus being unfair to many parties because I
did not pass sentence according to the laws of the land.
I had often heard people say that corrupt judges who
accept bribes and pass sentence not according to the
laws will suffer recompensation when they die; but I had
the feeling that if I could get honor as well as money,
that was good enough when I was alive, and it was
unrealistic to worry what comes after death. Now that I
am dead, I have to come to Hades to face the Magic
Mirror which projected every action and behaviour when I
was on Earth, how I accepted bribes, how I dished out
biased sentences, etc, all of which I could not deny,
like seeing a film show. After I had gone through
punishment in the “Ordure
(Dung and Urine) Prison,” I was sent to this
Prison for further punishment. Bian Cheng Wang scolded
me saying, “You were a judge
and were familiar with the laws of the land and should
uphold and respect them and yet you flouted the
self-same laws which you should have upheld. You
had therefore committed such
serious crimes of which there is no equal.” He
sentenced me to this Prison to crawl between the barbed
nettings until the whole body is open to leeches sucking
my blood, locusts sucking my brain, so much so, that my
body pains and feels tired – all so much suffering that
no words can describe.
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- Officer: You
were expected to uphold and respect the laws yet you
went against them thus making you an irresponsible,
lawless judge. I do hope the existing judges on Earth
will emulate “Bao Gong”
– strict administration of justice, the execution of
which is carried out without fear or favor; remove
injustice; then only will they be respected, otherwise,
after death they will have to be sent to this Prison to
be punished. Not only will they be punished here but
their past malpractices will implicate their future
descendants. Such recompensation has been handed down
through history and is a fact – no running away from it.
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- 2nd Soul:
I had a big, tall and hefty body when I was alive. I
worked as a body guard at gambling dens, houses of
prostitution, collected protection money in the
locality. I led a very full and happy life because I
always had money coming in, plenty of drinks, gambling
and women. How was I to know that after my death, Bian
Cheng Wang sent me to this Prison to be punished? I am
suffering everyday.
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- Officer: You
had committed other sins also; do not hide them, tell
the truth. If you do not obey, you will receive
additional punishment.
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- 2nd Soul:
Oh, Well. I’ll tell everything. Because I was used to
receiving money as a gangster, I never thought of making
use of my strength to earn a proper livelihood. Whatever
I ran short of money, I had just got to go to the shops
to exhort money; all my life through, I lived on
ill-gotten easy money.
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- JiGong: As a
human being, you refused to earn an honest living but
used force to exhort money from those who toiled hard
with blood and sweat. Such a person after death will
have to come to this Prison to undergo the punishment
and to suffer. I hope human beings will awaken. We are
running short of time. Yang Sheng, we must prepare to
return.
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- Yang Sheng:
Thank you, Officer and Generals, for being so helpful to
us. We have to return now.
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- Officer: All
Generals, line up and say goodbye.
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- Yang Sheng:
I am securely seated on the lotus flower platform. Dear
Master, we can start….
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- JiGong: We
have arrived at Sheng Xian Tang. Yang Sheng, get down.
Soul, return to your body.
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